Random crashes and other issues

[zedd]

My last 3 games now running with this DLC the game crashes for unknown reason.
Reloading the last auto-save does not work it just crashes again at the same in-game time.

I have also noticed subsidiaries build retail stores as part of there housing project sites even if expand into retail is disabled.

[David]

We will investigate the problem.

Could you please provide us with your save game file and let us know the following?
1) Which version of Capitalism Lab you are using. You can see the version number on the top-right of the main menu.
2) The exact steps for triggering the bug with the save game
3) If your savegame uses a MOD, please let us know the name of the MOD and the MOD's version number.

You can find save game files of Capitalism Lab from:
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[anjali]

allready had aswell 1 crash for inknown reason with 3.0.23 but reloading savegame was good enough and it didnt crash again... gonna install the debug version now n see if i get the another crash

[WilliamMGary]

I have also noticed subsidiaries build retail stores as part of there housing project sites even if expand into retail is disabled.

I think this is a survival mechanism as they try and make their properties as attractive as possible, it would be nice if they left open space for 3rd party retailers or have the ability to. oddly some of the retail focus CEO suck at retail and others excel.

[cantdownloadit]

property makes almost no money, without being able to build the stores as well it would take ages for them to be able to build the residential squares, and to me it would be illogical, they are building that neat square exactly to avoid competition which makes business sense.

if you don't like it you can always sell some squares for your subsidiary and then put the stores you want in those spaces... or just transfer ownership of the stores.

personally I like it as is, and make sure to have a few subsidiary's that are property only.

[anjali]

usually i build the residentials myself as whole and until now i was running the retails myself also after subs were unable to handle it without costing me a fortune, but with the managment policies fixed i gonna give it a try again to let them handle the retails. apartments only make work once, when ya set them up therefore at least in my opinion its better to build them yaself to have them put up neat and not littered all over the place. but on retails the layout is given by myself and factories are mine so they just resell my crap and "look for better supplies" / "look for better goods" is disabled so they dont switch around and mess up, just handle the pricing and advertising is not permitted either for the A.I.'s to not bancrupt them as they are damn clever and rather sell your lovely shops that are leveled up to max over the years then dropping the advertising.

[zedd]

The random crashes happened in 3.0.22B, I don't have the saves since updating but I will send if I encounter similar random crashes in last version playing in the same way.


As for the subsidiaries behaviour I hate building apartments all over 10 cities myself. I have enough to do expanding production. So I have been using real estate subsidiaries for this purpose and pumping money into them. I would meddle a lot with the subsidiaries development districts to not have them run those retail stores. Transfer them to a separate subsidiary, sell land to build own stores, or take them over myself. I wonder how this meddling affects the AIs ability to develop the purchased plot...

[zedd]

I also noticed the requirement to build apartments (or anything else) next to road does not seem to apply to the AI, so sometimes they can use the land better depending on road densitiy.